Wang outduels Hu in 5-1 Biscuits loss
BILOXI, Miss. (biscuitsbaseball.com) – Wei-Chung Wang (3-3) outdueled fellow Taiwan native Chih-Wei Hu (2-5) as the Biscuits lost their first game of the second half to the Biloxi Shuckers by a score of 5-1 on Saturday night at MGM Park.
Wang and Hu, who grew up childhood friends in Taiwan, took the mound against one another and each hurler had a shutout through the first three innings of work. It wasn’t until the fourth when the Shuckers would get on the board first courtesy of a Chris McFarland sacrifice fly to make it 1-0 Biloxi.
An inning later, Brett Phillips stepped up and hit a two-run double before Garrett Cooper added an RBI-single to put the Shuckers up for good, 4-0. Hu would go six innings, but allowed a season-high nine hits-one of three Biscuits pitchers to do so this season. Hu still tallied five strikeouts with two walks in the losing effort.
Wang on the other side was outstanding, tossing 6.2 shutout innings and holding the Biscuits to just two hits while striking out nine on the way to his third win of the season. The Biscuits would finally score their first run of the game in the eighth inning thanks to an RBI-single by Mike Marjama off Tyler Spurlin to make it a 4-1 game. The single extended Marjama’s season-long hitting streak to nine games.
McFarland would add another sac fly in the bottom half of the same inning to put the game out of reach, as the Biscuits went down in order in the ninth. The Biscuits have now lost the last seven games that Hu has started after winning his first six starts of the year.
The Biscuits, who were the only undefeated team in the second half entering Saturday night, will try to turn things around on Sunday when Chris Kirsch battles Jorge Ortega at 5:10 PM.
